Posted on 07/17/2019 12:21:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
It’s been decades since Democrats had to confront a genuine challenge from the far left...
The cracks in the party were most evident last week after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) casually deployed the race card against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). To be sure, Ocasio-Cortez’s side swipe — implying Pelosi singled her and her progressive allies out for criticism because they are women of color — was bad enough. But the real depth of the challenge Democrats face is better seen by looking at comments from Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti...
Observers may wonder why Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff are engaging in this internecine battle. From the viewpoint of the evolutionary left, such efforts are futile and self-defeating...
Chakrabarti let the cat out of the bag in a recent extensive profile in The Post magazine. According to the report, Chakrabarti told an aide for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), a presidential candidate, that his boss’s Green New Deal “wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti says, “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” You can’t get much more revolutionary than that...
It’s no coincidence that the Green New Deal speaks as much about ensuring quality jobs and helping “frontline and vulnerable communities” as it does about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also calls for an “economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II,” uprooting the U.S. economy with the government calling the shots...
If the entire U.S. economy must be uprooted — if the United States is inherently a “racist system” — then those who propose evolutionary change are as culpable as those who oppose any change at all. They must be opposed as strenuously...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
He should be more worried if the jihadi jacobin squad succeeds. Billionaires like him will be the first to go to the gallows.
Who is this racist writer?
You're right, which begs the question, why are the most timid among us drawn to politics? There isn't a person on this board who wouldn't be acting like Trump, yet he alone is in their faces. It's no wonder we're screwed.
Speculation now is that Trump could raise $2 billion. He should direct part of that money into the Congressional races. Many Republican districts that went Democrat in 2018 could flip back - primarily due to low Democrat turnout. GOTV will be important for the Republicans - and they will have the cash to do it.
If they feel the race for the White House is lost, many Democrats will stay home. This was demonstrated in 1980. When the race was called for Reagan at 8:00pm EST, many Democrats in the West decided not to vote. A lot of down ballot Democrats lost because of that. With any luck, it will happen again in 2020.
And for that reason we need to pray every day for our president.
These idiots are going to push the ‘Rat party right over a cliff. The Squad and the posse of Presidential pipe dreamers are making George McGovern look like a Barry Goldwater wannabe.
I think you mean Subhas Chandra Bose. A nasty, traitorous piece of work.
He organized the Indian National Army, recruiting Indian POWs to turn their coats and fight for the Japanese in Burma. To their credit, many of these sepoys only wanted to escape brutal imprisonment, and deserted back to the British as soon as they reached the front lines.
Burma and Bill Slim’s “Forgotten 14th” Army was truly the finest hour of old Indian Army.
As for me - I lack the temperament for elected office. I’d sooner gut a dhimmicrat like a fish than have to listen to one drone on and on.
Is the Post worried about 2020? They should be. Trump has got that “bright colors vs pale pastels” thing going on.
Burn BABY!
BURN!
I agree. And am surprised.
AGREED!
Every day, it becomes more apparent that we elected the Donald with a Hail Mary pass, with seconds left in the game. I voted for him because he’s a bare knuckle fighter. I love that about him.
Mensheviks warning everyone about how dangerous the Bolsheviks are.
As a result, most normal people are put off or even shocked by the stupidity, many of them thought these people had something special going for them because they were serving in the House.
To actually see they are simply loud-mouthed ignoramuses is a shock to some, and the Left in general, especially the Leftist media and the Leftist "Old Guard" don't want to see them giving up all the family secrets for no reason, never mind even a good reason, of which there would be none.
LOL...an “explosive collar”...the imagery of what that collar might look like is somewhat entertaining. A dead, rotting albatross in the form of the “Gang of Four”...
IMHO, the 2020 election is over, Trump waltzs back in.
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